Arthur Henry Faber (29 February 1832 – 27 November 1910) was an

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er, headmaster and clergyman. The son of Major-General Charles Edward Faber, of the

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(for whom Mount Faber in Singapore is named), and Georgiana, daughter of John Bird, of the Indian Civil Service, he was born at

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in February 1832. The Faber family were landed gentry of Ampfield, near

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.A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, 13th edition, 1921, ed. A. Winton Thorpe, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 598-600, Faber of Ampfield pedigree Faber was educated in England at

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, before going up to

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. While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in

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against the

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in 1853. Faber graduated from New College in 1853, after which he remained as a

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until 1865. In 1862, he made a second appearance in first-class cricket for the

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against the

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, during which he scored a

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when he made exactly 100 in Gentlemen of the North first-innings. Faber became the headmaster of

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in 1865, a position he held until 1880. Having taken holy orders, he served as the rector of Sprotbrough, Yorkshire after leaving his post at Malvern. Faber died in November 1910 at Warmsworth, Yorkshire. He had married firstly, in 1864, his second cousin Mary Sophia Faber (died 1875); his second marriage, in 1898, was to Mary Elizabeth Isabella, daughter of Francis Bernard Selwood Tresilian MacCarthy, of

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, of the family of MacCarthy Reagh.The MacCarthys of Munster: The Story of a Great Irish Sept, Samuel Trant MacCarthy, Gryfons, 1997, p. 130 There were no children from either marriage.

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